[freeside] Not (RADIATOR | ICRADIUS)

Dana Hudes dhudes at hudes.org
Sun Apr 29 12:19:31 PDT 2001


Thanks for the information. I already found gnu-radius. It failed to compile one of its pieces. I reported the bug, we'll see.
Looking it over doesn't seem it supports SQL auth just accounting but am not sure -- and I haven't time to dig into broken software.

I'm rebuilding mysql , its taking quite a long time.

At this time I am aware of:
*ICRADIUS -- requires mysql or a real good hack job to rewrite to anything else
*Cistron - no SQL support
*RADIATOR - requires mysql. I was not impressed to pay money.
*IEA RadiusX - had problems (and considering its targeted to linux its weird that its just a tarball, no RPM).
*xtradius connects to postgresql or mysql.  I think there was some issue about the RADIUS profile support, but it looked good. Will it work with Freeside is the problem.
*YARD - no sql support
*Livingston -- no sql support
*Steel Belted RADIUS -- no Linux, only Solaris or NT.  Very expensive ($4000 for the first component, $995/year maintenance).  When I was working on AGIS nationwide 60,000 port rollout 
there was no problem to spend money for stuff like this, but when one is working on a ISP with 1200 customers growing to 4000, that's a big chunk of change.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kristian Hoffmann" <khoff at pc-intouch.com>
To: <ivan-freeside at sisd.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 2:42 PM
Subject: Re: [freeside] Not (RADIATOR | ICRADIUS)


> gnu-radius (http://www.gnu.org/software/radius/radius.html) supposedly
> supports both MySQL and PostgreSQL for accounting and authentication.  
> I've never used it so I don't know anything else about it.
> 
> 
> Kristian Hoffmann
> PC-InTOUCH/FireToWire System Administrator
> khoff at pc-intouch.com
> ---
> Relaxen und vatch das blinkenlights!
> 
> On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Dana Hudes wrote:
> 
> > Is it possible to use FreeSide with a RADIUS other than RADIATOR or ICRADIUS? I would like to use a RADIUS which works with postgresql rather than mysql .
> > I'm running on RH Linux 7.0 with Perl 5.6.1
> > (and having some trouble getting MySQL to build while postgresql is fine so rather than fight I'd like to switch).
> > 
> > Other than SQL access, what feature(s) of ICRADIUS/RADIATOR is FreeSide using that would not be supplied by a RADIUS that does access postgresql (any user experiences / recommendations?).
> > 
> > This for an ISP which will use Cisco As5300 NAS.
> > 
> >




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